The Love Principle

It's been a busy month. It started with me preparing to speak to a women's group in my town, and I was feeling the pressure. The coordinator called a few days after she extended the invitation and gave me a spill of what they were trying to work towards. The women of the congregation were divided. The ministries were suffering, and membership would soon feel the ripple. My heart bleed for them. Church people, Lord help us, I thought.

As much as I tried to prepare and write something to guide the session, the Lord wouldn't bend. My words dried up as soon as I sat down at the computer. He said to me one night in the shower that this wouldn't be a standing lecturing session. These women needed something more intimate.

The coordinator was concerned about bridging a gap between the members. I was concerned about bridging the gap between the women and God.

They selected the scripture passage from Titus 3. While, preparing I learned two lessons.

God desires relationship. We find more than our individual roles with this Titus 3 passage. We glimpse God's heart for our relationship with one another. He created us to invest in one another. Every generation is meant to guide in love and good example. We are responsible for one another more than we may have ever been willing to admit.

God demands reconciliation. We must never forget our unworthiness. There is nothing in us that deserves our inheritance in Christ, except that His love reconciled us to Himself. That should make it easy to love our sisters~ inspite of. Christ left no room for exceptions. Period. Love.

Sometimes starting over is the best solution. We have to give each other new mercies. I believe that is what God is calling for in His people. He does it, so can we. That day, we cried, we confessed, we commited to doing what we were created for.

"A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another (John 13:34)."

How do you hold up with loving others? Are you tempted to throw your hands up with difficult church members?

Tamika Eason is a passionate wife, writer, and awestruck mother to three daughters. She is amazed by God's great grace- that He chooses to love a woman so full of unworthiness. She and her husband serve in ministry in Austin, Texas.

You can find her writing inspirational fiction that showcases the power of supernatural love, and in October 2011 blogging at The Potter's Wheel

http://www.tamikaeason.com/